is an architect and a freelance architecture curator and researcher for various cultural institutions in Paris. Catherine has worked in France for the World Heritage Centre of UNESCO, Ireland, and in the United States for the SFMOMA and the California College of Arts. For five years, she was appointed as a curator at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, the city architecture center of Paris where she acquired an intimate knowledge of the architectural history of the city. She holds a MA in Cultural Heritage Studies from the University College London, as well as an engineering degree in architecture from the RWTH in Aachen, Germany and holds a title as „Guide conférencière des Monuments de France“. She speaks fluent French, English and German.
Catherine is managing director of GA PARIS. GA PARIS works with a team of professional Architects who speak several languages:
Born in 1983 in Chartres, France, Benjamin Loiseau graduated with a degree in Architecture at the ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine, in the Beaux Arts de Paris, in 2008. He has worked at Handel Architects in New York, Architecture-Studio in Shanghai, and the Agence Nicolas Michelin et Associés in Paris. In 2012, he wrote with John Gelder “less is too much?”, an architectural and philosophical novel beautifully introduced by Claude Parent. Since 2014, he is president of the firm MANO I ARCHITECTURE Paris.
Born in 1974 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Marcia Mendonça graduated in Architecture and Town Planning at Mackenzie University in her hometown in 1998. She pursued projects in Brazil and Ireland, collaborating with RO'BH Architects in Dublin. In 2008 she pursued a Master of Science in Sustainable Development at Dublin Institute of Technology. Since 2011 she is based in Paris where she works as Architect and Design Consultant for residential and institutional developments, and is currently a member of the Ordre des Architectes d’Ile-de-France.
graduated in architecture in 2002 from the RWTH Aachen, Germany. In Paris she worked for the offices of Marc Mimram, Odile Decq and Reichen and Robert where she led the transformation of the Olds mills of Pantin, the conversion of the Power Plan in St Denis into the «Cité du Cinéma» and the réorganisation of the campus of Jussieu. In 2011 she cofounded the agency SAA architectes, and in 2016 she founds the Vis-a-Vis Paris office, specialised in strategy, develoment and exécution of german-french projects Dorothee also teaches Architektur at the Architecture School of Strasbourg.
